MCA Television Enterprises: Difference between revisions

* The Abbott and Costello Show, for many years, which was the last remaining source of this logo, has gone through syndicator changes over the years. Episodes now end with either Alan Enterprises (pre-1983 prints) or (DFS) Program Exchange logos (current licensee of TCA Television Corp., the copyright holders) plastering over this logo and the DVD releases completely cut out the credits.

* This logo is intact on some public domain prints of the Dragnet episode "The Big Crime" (September 9, 1954).

* The version with the Revue "Turning Camera" logo is intact on TV Guide Presents...Great Westerns: The Adventures of Kit Carson on DVD.

* On Tales of Wells Fargo, the logo is superimposed into the background and the company name is in 2D.

* This was last seen at the end of The Adventures of Kit Carson on Encore Westerns, as well as first-season episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents last aired on RTV, the pilot of Leave it to Beaver, and early episodes of The Millionaire, alongside the Don Fedderson Productions logo. (MCA was Fedderson's agent (the latter three titles were in-credit)).

* It also appears at the beginning and end of Bells of San Angelo on Starz Encore Westerns.

* Closing: Also shown as an in-credit logo at the end of Revue shows alongside the Revue logo from 1956 to 1961, as well as black & white episodes of My Three Sons made prior to 1965. However, on the Revue/MCA cards in 1958, "Exclusive Representatives" became "exclusive distributor", such as those early episodes on Leave It to Beaver.

* The in-credit logo that's shared with the Revue logo is uncommon. However, it can be seen on Leave It to Beaver on Me-TV and DVD and Alfred Hitchcock Presents on Antenna TV.

* The animated version was retained on Remember the Night with the opening theme and Broken Lullaby with the theme on TCM. The long version appeared on the 1942 film, Hatter's Castle on TCM.

===4th Logo (1974-1983)===

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

===5th Logo (August 16, 1982-1991) ===

* On some of MCA's first-run shows (examples include Bionic Six, Puttin' On the Hits, and Pictionary), the logo was preceded with a card (similar to an "In Association With" screen) with the show's title, copyright notice, the MCA union bug, and a copyright warning. This card was in-credit on The Best Little Special in Texas.

* On the first two seasons of The Munsters Today, the MCA logo would have a copyright stamp from Arthur Co. & Associates below the globe.

* On The Morton Downey, Jr. Show, the logo would iris in from the QMI Television logo.

* 1984-1991: Shows like Kate and Allie and Gimme A Break! would have the last ten notes of the theme.

* 1987-1991: Shows like Out of this World would have the logo theme start off with various ways.

* On The Munsters Today, the series used the last 11 notes (the second half) from the MCA TV theme.

* On My Secret Identity, the music theme of the series would play over this logo.

* On shows with the aforementioned copyright card, the theme played over both the card and the MCA logo. On Pictionary, an announcer says "...and is distributed by MCA!".

* The New Lassie uses an abridged 1981 Universal Television theme, the same as on Charles in Charge starting with season 2 at the time.

* On most episodes of the '80s version of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, the low tone 1982 Universal Television theme is used.

* It appeared on Bionic Six, Puttin' On the Hits (the only source of the "flipping away" variant we know of), and reruns of Gimme a Break! and Kate and Allie in the '80s.

* This can still be seen on the Canadian complete series DVD (from VEI: Visual Entertainment Inc.) and Antenna TV reruns of Gimme a Break!, 1986-1990 reruns of Kate and Allie, and Amen on Get TV.

* It was also seen on shows like The Munsters Today, Out of This World, My Secret Identity, The New Lassie, and the 1982 TV special The Best Little Special in Texas (the first known appearance of the logo).

* The filmed version appeared on worldwide prints of Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong, Jr. (both were originally from Saturday Supercade), The New Dragnet, and The New Adam-12.

===6th Logo (November 1987-June 1988)===

* It was seen on the short-lived 1988 ABC series Probe, the two Desperado TV movies: The Return of Desperado and Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge, and the 1988 TV movie Longarm.

* The logo was last seen on the Desperado TV movies on Encore Westerns.

===7th Logo (October 10, 1990-April 6, 1991)===

* It was seen on Shades of L.A., but was last seen on a WWOR-TV 9 (now My9) airing of said show back in 2006.

* It's also found on some early episodes of Roggin's Heroes in local syndication.

===8th Logo (1991-1994)===

* It's currently seen on the last season of Amen on Get TV with the late 1986 Uni TV theme, as well as fall 1991-1993 episodes of Roggin's Heroes.

* The version with the 1991 Uni TV theme originally appeared on early Action Pack TV movies. It also appeared on Exosquad and Monster Force, which is intact on the DVD releases of said shows.

* At least two unsold game show pilots/pitch reels Pindemonium (with Ken Ober) and Hollywood Teasers (from Merrill Heatter Productions) have shown up on YouTube with this logo at the end; for the latter, a black screen with an MCA TV copyright date of 1993 shows up after the logo.

===9th Logo (1994-December 1996)===

* It can be seen on the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys on H&I (Heroes and Icons) reruns and DVD, and Xena: Warrior Princess on DVD.

* The early variant was seen on Vanishing Son and Vanishing Son III.

* This logo was later replaced with the bylineless Universal logo in January 1997.

* This also surprisingly plastered the 5th logo above on the season 4 DVDs of Kate and Allie.